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      • Buchanan is quoting Churchill’s preface to The Gathering Storm, the first part of a 6-volume series about World War II. ((Winston Churchill, The Second World War: The Gathering Storm (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948), iv.))
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  2. Buchanan is quoting Churchill's preface to The Gathering Storm, the first part of a 6-volume series about World War II. 2 When bringing up this quote, Buchanan typically follows it up with reversing the term back on Churchill.

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    Buchanan begins his efforts to discredit Churchill with an overview of events leading up to the First World War. While mainstream historical analysts tend to view Germany as one of the prime belligerents, Buchanan's Germany is portrayed as a pacifist nation that simply wanted a navy of their own, but was confronted and thwarted every step of the wa...

    Buchanan wants us to believe that Churchill was "lusting" for war and he used the neutrality of Belgium as an excuse to join the fight. When Ferdinand was assassinated, Churchill and the British Cabinet continued dealing with domestic issues. Even on July 24, nearly a month after the assassination, when Churchill learned that Austria delivered its ...

    Throughout these pre-World War I chapters, Buchanan quotes bits and pieces of statements and private letters from Churchill as he prepared the Royal Navy, attempting to portray him as a warmonger. For example, he provides a portion of a letter that Churchill sent to his wife saying, "I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be buil...

    After laying the blame of the First World War at the feet of Churchill, Buchanan jumps to its aftermath. Convincing the reader that the Treaty of Versailles paved the way for the rise of Hitler is a simple task. I have yet to read a historian that argues to the contrary. This was a treaty designed to keep Germany weak and dependent on other countri...

    John Keegan, The Battle for History: Re-Fighting World War II (New York: Vintage Books, 1996), 28.
    Patrick J. Buchanan, "PJB: 1992 Republican National Convention Speech," Patrick J. Buchanan - Right From the Beginning, http://buchanan.org/blog/1992/08/1992-republican-national-convention-speech (...
    Patrick J. Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" (New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2008), 6.
    Luigi Albertini, The Origins of the War of 1914, vol. 1. Isabella M. Massey, ed. (New York: Enigma Books, 2005), 99-102, 112, 115, 116.
  3. May 15, 2009 · A problem illustrated by Pat Buchanan’s Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War is the rampant use of selective quotes. No animus toward the author: “I like a man who grins when he fights,” as Churchill said.

  4. Mar 30, 2011 · The first volume, The Gathering Storm, describes his opposition to the appeasement of Hitler during the 1930s, and provides the text for a BBC TV drama of the same name. It is a good tale, told...

  5. Feb 1, 2004 · In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. The most famous use of the quote, though it can be found as far back as 21 Jan 1921 in Churchill's own hand, and Edward Marsh, his private secretary, suggested it dated back to just after WW I,….

  6. Churchill Archives Centre The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill Churchill Papers, 1945-1965 Literary, 1924 - 1965 Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 1 "The Gathering Storm": Book 1: Master copy proofs., 30 Jan 1948